Being invited to a round table discussion with the ‘Working Well Together‘ team and the HSE (Health and Safety Executive), one of the members asked for information on Alcohol and Drug testing in the workplace. The problem this individual manager had weren’t discussed, but I can only assume the company is suffering from lost productivity or […]
Category Archives: Compliance
What do you think is number one in the list of the greatest risk businesses face today, the common risk which threatens every company’s capacity to trade? It’s Safety… Number two maybe Brexit, three and four, possibly austerity and unpredictable external factors. This is because safety is the only single requirement which places a responsibility […]
13 of the 28 companies prosecuted in February 2019 *1 where prosecuted due to lead company failing to manage their contractors – their supply chain. All businesses like you will have some form of health and safety in place have an employed H&S manager/team or engage the services of an external advisor. But how robust […]
On a wintery January night, I attended the IOSH branch meeting at the Nottingham Forest Football Club. The speaker Richard Jones MSc CFIOSH, IOSH Head of Policy and Public Affairs was booked to talk about the ‘Benefits of Good OHS Management, Main Characteristics of ISO 45001 & Key Changes from OHSAS 18001’ I’ve been waiting […]
New sentencing guidelines for manslaughter offences were published July this year and will come into force in courts on 1 November 2018. Safety PAL is a unique Health and Safety Management System built from a requirement to ensure companies do what they need to do rather than what they want to do. We always enjoy […]
Compliance, Health and Safety, Risk management, Safeguarding employees
The Importance of Managing Fatigue in the Workplace by Abby Hart
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Nowadays, people often glorify overtime culture and not getting enough sleep — all in the name of hustling and hard work. Unfortunately, this has made stress part and parcel of work to the point that its serious repercussions are often overlooked, allowing a seemingly typical “tiring day” to stretch into fatigue. Fatigue is defined […]
Nobody has ever argued Health and Safety isn’t important… What they argue is that health and safety hinders progress, restricts workers from doing a full day’s work, limits managers time by increasing paperwork and it’s is a near impossibility to show and guide every worker safely all of the time everyday. We know you should […]
Basic Workplace Training costs are a burden for many companies… An interesting 2 days spent researching the costs of; online, in-house and training centre Health & Safety courses, provided us with some astonishing results: We found basic courses ranging from £25 for a 2-hour online session to £895 for a 2-day training centre course. We […]
How confident is your company in winning compensation claims and not handing over hard-earned cash to a careless worker? Where you aware that thousands and thousands of calls and Google searches are made every month?… “I have had an accident at work, what do I do next?” This article is for the Managing Directors […]
A unique event to help reduce RISk by partnering HR with H&S To capitalise on unifying these two quite disjointed departments and reduce exposure to risk through fixed cost, practical and commercial robust solutions we have created this unique event. Date and time: 7th December 2018 10:00 – 14:30 Read more and register here […]